Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ghassan Al-Katout / Al-Rowad Press and Media - The National Office for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance said that Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz is trying to appease the leaders of the Israeli "national camp" by turning a blind eye to the expansion of settlement outposts .

The settlers, especially those who belong to the Hilltop Youth, Price Tag, “Lahava” and “Regavim” and other Jewish terror organizations, leave no opportunity but invest it in expanding the construction of outposts and imposing them later as a fait accompli, either as new settlements or as neighborhoods belonging to existing settlements, even if they are not associated with these settlements.

The Knesset elections in Israel are considered an appropriate opportunity not only for these settlers to blackmail the parties at this level, but also for politicians to appease these settlers in an attempt to win their votes in the elections.

In this regard, these settlers, who belong to Jewish terrorist organizations, take advantage of opportunity after opportunity and expand their control over citizens' lands by building more settlement outposts and imposing them as a fait accompli with facilities provided to them by the occupation army.

In the Hebron Governorate, settlers set up a number of "caravans" and a tent on the citizens' lands in Wadi Sa'ir, northeast of Hebron, in preparation for their seizure and the establishment of a new settlement outpost. It is called (Abu Luqa), and its area is about 80 dunums. It is an area rich in fruitful olive trees, close to the "Anab" settlement. The settlers, under the protection of the army, prevent the owners of the lands from reaching their targeted lands in that area.

And in the Bethlehem governorate, settlers established a new settlement outpost consisting of wooden buildings in the settlement bloc "Gush Etzion" in the south of the West Bank, in preparation for converting it into a settlement, and the "Peace Now" movement called on the security forces to zero tolerance for outpost criminals, "and called on the Minister of Defense Benny Gantz To order the dismantling of the outpost, and considered that "every minute that the outpost continues to be evidence that the Minister of Defense is working to please Sa'ar and Matan Kahane and is deviating towards the ultra-Orthodox parties," indicating that both the Minister of Justice and the head of the "New Amal" party, Gideon Sa'ar, and Minister Matan Kahane, the former leader of the Yamina party, and they are partners with Gantz in the "National Camp" bloc in the early parliamentary elections in early November.

On the other hand, settlement operations in Jerusalem are taking place at an accelerated pace to resolve what has not been resolved during the past decades. In Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, the Old City, and others, it is ostensibly implemented by private parties, but it is based on government policy and enabled by it.

To deflect internal and external criticism of these actions, the government has generally avoided direct involvement in them. Instead, the state has used its machinery to allow private ultra-right organizations to implement a plan designed to establish Jewish outposts within and around Palestinian neighborhoods of the Old City and its environs, altering their character and thwarting the possibility of a solution. politician in Jerusalem.

Among the associations that obtained property from the occupation authorities were "Ateret Cohenim" and the "Elad" association, which focused all its efforts on the Jewish metropolis in the Mughrabi Gate/Al-Buraq Wall, Silwan in the south of the Old City, and Ain Silwan, to become the richest and most reliable settlement association in cooperation with the government, parties, and the municipality. This association derives its financial support by about 70% from parties and religious personalities inside Israel and from Europe and the United States. The municipality and the Jerusalem Committee in the Israeli government refer to it work in many sites within the walls of Jerusalem, in Silwan, and in the "Umayyad palaces".

There are political, financial and intelligence figures who pay, help and provide these settlement associations with money and information for the success of the project of Judaizing Jerusalem and controlling homes, lands and real estate in the Old City and its surrounding neighborhoods and villages using many practices, including the use of the "absentee property guard" and the "criminal records" of some Jerusalemites using the law in an exploitative manner and even circumvent it.

In this context, and under the title of the "giant project" in the Qanat complex on the lands of Sur Baher, southwest of Jerusalem, the occupation municipality announced that the Israeli company "Azurim" won the special tender for the construction of 434 settlement units on the Jerusalem-Hebron road, at a cost of 1.07 billion shekels. That the company build these units on Palestinian land, a large part of which is within the borders of western Jerusalem, and a longitudinal sector within the borders of occupied Jerusalem in 1967.

The total area of the complex is about 7.3 dunums, and the project extends with a series of huge buildings that reach the outskirts of Sur Baher village and Kibbutz (Ramat Rachel).

Al-Khalil Street is one of the most important roads because it connects Jerusalem in its two parts with the largest settlement blocs in the south, with the “Gilo” settlements and Jabal Abu Ghneim “Harhoma” settlement, and from there with the series of “Kfar Etzion” settlements in the south of the West Bank, where these blocs or settlement neighborhoods will be linked with a main road for transportation on a line The light rail is expected to include the construction of an arena and grandstands for meetings and assemblies, a building intended for preservation (aqueduct) and the creation of an open area with the preservation of many trees in the southern part, which accompanies water to the north to preserve the landscape and the historic canal.

The occupation municipality in Jerusalem also approved two new construction plans to be deposited with the District Committee, including the construction of a settlement building and a commercial center in "Beit HaKerem" in "Givat HaFaridim" on the Green Line border between East and West Jerusalem, and a plan to build a new settlement neighborhood below the "Ramot" settlement on The lands of Lifta extend to the southwestern borders of the village of Beit Iksa, north of occupied East Jerusalem.

The plan is located in the buffer zone, where a garden and buildings built by a settler will be removed below the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, near the main axis, bypass road 443, and the railway linking Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. According to the decision, 270 settlement units will be built gradually parallel to the bridge at the top of the mountain. Opposite to the village of Lifta El Tahta.

At the same time, the local Planning and Building Committee approved a plan to establish a settlement neighborhood on the lands of the villages of Sur Baher and Umm Tuba, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, and to expand the “Ramat Rachel” kibbutz. The Israeli government previously announced this project days before the visit of US President Joe Biden and decided to postpone its official approval. After the visit, for fear of disturbing its atmosphere.

According to the published plan, the settlement neighborhood will be built towards the entrance of Jabal Abu Ghneim "Har Homa" on an area bounded by the Green Line on one side and the 1967 borders on the other. It is part of the Israeli plan to build a settlement wall separating East Jerusalem from Bethlehem with a settlement wall from east to west.

The plan includes the construction of 1,400 settlement units in the first phase to the north of the kibbutz gas station (beside Hebron Road) and below the settlement of (Mitzpe Yair) above the kibbutz overlooking Givat Hamatos, so that it closes and seizes a large area of private Palestinian land, so that no empty lands remain and are closed. The entire southern region in Mashhad perpetuates a wall of settlement buildings that cuts off the geographical and demographic connection between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

The Israeli plan is based on 3 objectives, which are to clear and remove the Green Line by building on its periphery in a systematic and deliberate manner so that it is not possible to return to the 1967 borders, and to sever communication between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the two religious twins, the cradle, the resurrection and Al-Aqsa, and to vanish from the witness of occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of the people. Palestinian.

Settlement does not stop in the rest of the West Bank governorates. In the Salfit governorate, the Israeli government approved a plan to establish a new settlement located west of the "Ariel" settlement, which it called "Ariel West", which would close the city of Salfit, and prevent the development of the Palestinian space in it, and the "Ariel" plan Gharb is not just a plan to build hundreds of housing units, but rather a new settlement designed to close off the city of Salfit, including cutting off any potential development in the city's infrastructure.

The Civil Administration – the military government, will discuss a plan to modify the route of the access road to the new settlement, after it was found that the access road in the original plan passes through private land that prevents the engulfment of private Palestinian lands, so it was decided to remain suspended until the confiscation decision.

While the Israeli Ministry of Housing issued tenders for the construction of (731) housing units to establish the “Ariel West” settlement, which is officially considered part of the “Ariel” settlement, but in practice it is separate and remote from it, and in fact it is a new settlement. The completion of all required planning procedures, although there is no legal impediment to publishing a tender before the planning is completed, but this indicates an attempt to expedite and promote construction, to isolate and besiege Salfit Governorate and limit its expansion.